I am the 5th child of 11 children born to my parents. 8 girls and 3 boys, 2 of those girls were twins. My dad was in the Air Force and we did not live in one place longer than 5 years. I was born in Japan but we left when I was not even 3 years old. I do not remember much but I have glimpses of images from living there. We had 2 black birds we named Heckel and Jeckel after the cartoon characters. I have images of fields around where we lived. Don't know how accurate this memory is but when I see pictures of rural areas of Vietnam it reminds of where we were in Japan.
I was born May 5, 1958 which was originally Boys' Day in Japan but had been changed to Children"s Day in 1948. However even when I was born boys held a greater importance than girls. My dad told me one time my older brother, child #4 and 2 years older than me, had wandered off and he went looking for him. He found him at a local's house being treated like a king because he was a boy. My mom was in the hospital all weekend in labor with me. Monday afternoon the doctor figured it was going to be a while longer so he went for dinner. That is when I decided to make my entrance into the world and they barely got the doctor back in time. Even back then I did things my own way and that has not changed.
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